"United Kingdom" a United Kingdom Travel Page by ChristinaC

I do not live that far from the UK, we are almost neighbours as I live in Denmark, even though I never went there before other than when I had to change flight in Heathrow.

I always thought the UK was a strange country, I then had the chance to go with my friend in August, and found out that I was pretty much right. Not a bad word about the british people, most of them are very kind and helpful :) Though sometimes a bit hard to understand because of the accent :p
But I mean why do they have to drive in the wrong side of the road?

Well it was all my idea, I was told that one of my favorite horses was getting shown at Towerlands, and I thought I had to go.

I didnt wanted to go alone, so I asked a good friend of mine, though she had never been flying before I got her convinced to go with me. This was how our big(?? :p) trip to the UK came to live.

I was left with all the planning, as usual! This is what I love so I didnt really have a problem with it, as long as people dont try to correct me or change the plans in last seconds. This fortunally didnt happen :) My friend is very easy to work with, and went along with all my ideas, she was so excited to fly for the first time, that she didnt notice that the price for the trip doubled... poor girl... lol

We were flying with Ryan Air to Stansted Airport on August the 25th. The city we were going to stay in Braintree, not that far from London, but there were no plans on a visit to London this time, we simply wouldnt get the time.

We had chosen not to take a Taxi from the airport to the hotel, this might had been easier, but alot more expensive, so we found a bus to Braintree, only 3 £, so cheap compared to Denmark! I would have expected it to be at least the same, but no, first pleasent surprise.

When we finally reached Braintree, I must admit that I was happy that we were still alive, it turned out that the busdriver probably never had been behind a wheel before! That was one exciting ride! lol later we found out that it's normal to drive like crazy there :-S
Phew when we had to cross the street I am used to that I have to look to the left, cos that's where the cars comes from in DK, but I never thought it could be that confusing to look to the right instead, it's very confusing, and we were to girls doing the same mistake everytime, no comments on that plz :p we should have learned it the first time we almost got run over by a car.

Anyway we arrived at the hotel safe and sound. I had booked 3 nights at the Premier Travel Inn, cos I knew some of my friends from Belgium would be staying there too. Nice hotel for the price, no disappointment there, other than they didnt even understand english in the reception, that was quite funny.

The whole weekend went on with the show, participaters from the Middle East and around Europe. Princess Alia of Jordan, Sheikh Ammar (Crown Prince of Ajman, UAE) and Prince Khalid from Saudi Arabia was there, the two last both arrived in their own private plans (big ones!) in Stansted Airport. My friend and I didnt miss a chance to speak very loudly about who these guys were and that we actually knew them, no need to say that we got a few looks from people around us haha

Well the show was great, lovely horses as usual. Nice people around, and great atmospher.

We spend 4 days in the UK, and it almost didnt rain, I must admit that I was kind of amazed! I would have expected it to rain constantly! That's what you always hear. But no, it did rain a bit, but just for like 5 min a day, must be the global warming...